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Bill: Free Health Care Act of 4207
Details
Submitted by[?]: Volkspartei für Freiheit und Demokratie
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 4207
Description[?]:
| Freeing the national healthcare system from the chains of the state. We propose to privatize it as allowing competition within the system will allow for higher quality and lower costs. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Current: Health care is entirely private.
Proposed: Health care is entirely private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Current: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Proposed: Health and safety laws are to be determined by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:57:04, May 07, 2017 CET | From | Volkskommunistische Partei | To | Debating the Free Health Care Act of 4207 |
| Message | Freeing healthcare from the chains of actually helping people. Capitalism, everybody: stealing healthcare from the poor. Are you insane? This isn't even a socialist measure, it's just basic human decency. Privatisation doesn't help healthcare, it just makes sure the system is ruthlessly efficient and fails to help inconvenient patients. Is this what the people want? I doubt it. Volker Wittke VP Leader Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Date | 13:03:43, May 08, 2017 CET | From | Volkspartei für Freiheit und Demokratie | To | Debating the Free Health Care Act of 4207 |
| Message | In a normal market, competition drives relentless improvements in quality and cost. Rapid innovation leads to rapid diffusion of new technologies and better ways of doing things. Excellent competitors prosper and grow, while weaker rivals are restructured or go out of business. Quality-adjusted prices fall, value improves, and the market expands to meet the needs of more consumers Rudolf Strand Leader of the VFD |
| Date | 00:45:01, May 09, 2017 CET | From | Volkskommunistische Partei | To | Debating the Free Health Care Act of 4207 |
| Message | This is the most paper thin nonesense I have ever heard. What you are doing here is denying innocent people healthcare while removing ALL NATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION. So what you really want is a profit driven, standardless, heartless, ruthless system? This isn't a normal market, Herr Strand. This is why certain things must be provided by the state. It's called market failure. And the health system is so incredibly vital to society, to leave this up to private companies is completely bizarre and ignores the needs of ill, sick, dying people. This isn't just capitalism, this is insanity. The very fact you mention 'weaker rivals', as if you recognise that this breeds a lack of quality while completely accepting it! Nobody deserves this. Volker Wittke VP Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 197 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 202 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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